A Canadian actress accused of stalking Alec Baldwin has been jailed for violating a restraining order.

New York City police detectives arrested Genevieve Sabourin at a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesdayfor violating an order of protection barring her from contacting the 30 Rock actor and his wife Hilaria Thomas.

Sabourin was in court Tuesday after her lawyer asked to be taken off the case.

Jailed: Genevieve Sabourinwas today led away in handcuffs in a Manhattan court after 'violating a restraining order'

Earlier this year, a judge ordered Sabourin to stay away from Baldwin following her
arrest on harassment charges.

Harassed: Alec Baldwin and wife Hilaria Thomas, pictured earlier this month have allegedly been the subject of tweets from Sabourin

However, recent news reports said
she had been tweeting angry comments about Baldwin's new
yoga instructor wife.

'Alec Baldwin wife Hilaria REAL
name:Hilary Hayward-Thomas.LIED wile call 911 on me w her false
name.I'll file 4felony,' she wrote on Tuesday, according to the New York Daily News, directing the tweets to Thomas's Twitter feed.

Baldwin and Sabourin met on the set of the 2002 sci-fi comedy The
Adventures of Pluto Nash, in which he had a cameo and she was a
publicist. Baldwin says they had dinner together back in 2010 'just to give her career advice,' he said in the original career complaint.

The newspaper adds that Sabourin told the court her life 'had been ruined' by the charges that she sent 'dozens of emails to Baldwin and about his then-fiancée Hilaria,' as well as showing up at his homes in the Hamptons and the West Village earlier this year.

The criminal court judge granted a request by her lawyer, Maurice Sercarz, to be removed from the case because she couldn't pay her bill and refused to take his advice on settling the case.

The New York Daily News reported that Sabourin was lead down the hallway after her court appearance with her hands cuffed behind her: 'I'm asking why I'm being arrested,' she said. 'They won't tell me.'

Earlier this year, Sabourin appeared in court to hear prosecutors detail a string of newly unearthed emails she is alleged to have written to the actor.

In a signed affidavit filed in a Manhattan court back in July, Baldwin alleged he received ten emails from Sabourin on a single day in March.

Earlier this year, Sabourin appeared in
court to hear prosecutors detail a string of emails she
is alleged to have written to the actor.

Frazzled: Sabourin appeared in court back in July along with now former-lawyer Maurice Sercarz

Accused: The 40-year-old actress heard prosecutors detail a string of newly unearthed emails she is alleged to have sent Baldwin

In a signed affidavit filed in a Manhattan court back in July, Baldwin alleged he received ten emails from Sabourin on a single day in March.

Baldwin said that Sabourin wrote in one email: 'I should call the FBI and tell the FBI that tomorrow the defendant would be in front of my office building, my apartment building, the place of employment of my then fiancée (Thomas) and several other places where I often go.'

He added: 'The defendant sent me another email with the subject line "Defcon 1." The defendant said in words or substance that she was going to start a "massive destructive war" with me.She also said that she would find me no matter what it cost her.

'She said that I could call the FBI and have her put in jail, or I could call her and speak to her,' Baldwin said. 'She told me if I did not have an conversation with her it would mean "war" and that she was "ready for it" and asked if I wanted to have this happen in a "non-control[led] place and time at any given moment like a bad surprise.'

Glamour girl: The case's publicity has stalled Miss Sabourin's career, she said back in July

No work: The actress claimed she has not had 'a single audition' since being accused of stalking

Sabourin was told to abstain from all
attempts to contact the actor, whether by 'text, telephone or in
person,' during her court appearance.

'You'd expose yourself to jail time, understand?' Judge Mark White told her during the brief hearing.

Baldwin claimed Sabourin was harassing him with emails asking him to marry her, and turning up at his apartment in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood.

But Sabourin's lawyer Maurice Sercarz,
said the stalking claims were based on a misunderstanding, hinting he
believed that contact between the actress and Baldwin was mutual.

There are 'a substantial number' of text messages and emails 'back and forth,' he told reporters.

Sercarz wrote in the filings: 'The encounter characterised in the
[criminal complaint] as a 'brief' meeting for dinner in the Fall of 2010
also included attendance at a theatrical performance, a backstage
meeting with the actors, and the fact that Mr. Baldwin accompanied the
defendant back to her hotel.'

Baldwin,
who moved out of his $9.5million apartment to move in with wife Hilaria
last year, is alleged to have been bombarded with e-mails and text
messages from the
sultry actress, who said she loved him and wanted to have his baby.

Sabourin was arrested earlier this year after travelling to Mr Baldwin's
Manhattan home just days after turning up at his holiday home in the
Hamptons. She had also turned up unannounced at events such as a Last Tango In Paris Q & A Mr Baldwin was
taking part in.

Sabourin,
who has appeared in a string of French language films, was finally arrested by police when a
doorman alerted Baldwin who was staying in the Hamptons.

The actor notified police who arrested her on suspicion of aggravated harassment and stalking.